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Collaborative Caring: Stories and Reflections on Teamwork in Health Care
Suzanne Gordon (Ed.)
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Description for Collaborative Caring: Stories and Reflections on Teamwork in Health Care
Hardback. Editor(s): Gordon, Suzanne; Feldman, David Lewis; Leonard, Michael. Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 542.
Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining effective teams? Collaborative Caring takes an unusual approach to the topic of teamwork. Editors Suzanne Gordon, Dr. David L. Feldman, and Dr. Michael Leonard have gathered fifty engaging first-person narratives provided by people from various health care professions.Each story vividly portrays a different dimension of teamwork, capturing the complexity-and sometimes messiness-of moving from theory to practice when it comes to creating genuine teams ... Read more
Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining effective teams? Collaborative Caring takes an unusual approach to the topic of teamwork. Editors Suzanne Gordon, Dr. David L. Feldman, and Dr. Michael Leonard have gathered fifty engaging first-person narratives provided by people from various health care professions.Each story vividly portrays a different dimension of teamwork, capturing the complexity-and sometimes messiness-of moving from theory to practice when it comes to creating genuine teams ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Condition
New
Weight
542g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801453397
SKU
V9780801453397
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99-1
About Suzanne Gordon (Ed.)
Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist. She has written, edited, or co-authored twenty books, including First Do No Harm, Beyond the Checklist, Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines, and Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics. She is an adjunct professor in the school of nursing at McGill University. Gordon is a health-care commentator on Public Radio ... Read more
Reviews for Collaborative Caring: Stories and Reflections on Teamwork in Health Care
Teamwork is the neglected part of medical training and the new frontier for the reliable delivery of quality care. It is not enough to know what to do; providers need to be able to deliver that knowledge reliably-and that takes teamwork. This book emphasizes the essential elements of true teamwork: actions coordinated by a shared goal, a shared mental model ... Read more